m-kay

(informal) Okay; an expression of acknowledgment or affirmation, now often used in an ironical or condescending sense.

Drugs are bad, m’kay?

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1997: Christina S. Beck, Partnership for Health :

C: I want you to re:st (.) re:st (.) as much as you can do (.) is just re:st (.) hhh when >you go< home (.) >you tell< your husband you make dinner honey (.) hhh you take care of me (.) . . . I need >to set< down (.) I need >to rest< (.)

P: mmkay (.)

C: and >get down< (.) watch your sodium (.) the salt=

2004, Abbe Diaz, PX This :

well i used to have some skilled sticky fingers of my own back in the day so i know a shoplifted dress when i see one mmkay.

2005, Catherine Delaney, The Rosameorns :

I looked back to him...mmkay brown hair dark eyes...high cheek bones that lucky monkey I wonder if he has some native American.

2005, Jenny Colgan, Boy I Loved Before

She was sitting perched on her desk, in that nonchalant, ‘mmkay?’ way teachers do when they’re trying to pretend they’re down with the kids.

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1999, Tom Bradley, Black Class Cur [11]:

“I’ll tell you a secret if you promise not to tell anybody, not even the missus, m’kay?”

Sentence Examples

(1904); Latest Literary Essays and Addresses (1891); The Old English Dramatists (1892); Conversations on some of the Old Poets (Philadelphia, David M`Kay; reprint of the volume published in 1843 and subsequently abandoned by its author, 18 93); The Power of Sound: a Rhymed Lecture (New York, privately printed, 1896); Lectures on English Poets (Cleveland, The Rowfant Club, 1899).